Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-19
Thursday, May 19, 1887.
AFEKR THE FIRE.

AFTER THE FIRE Among the RuIns-DeIavs to Business Many Stores Flooded - Different Theories as to the Fires Origin. Hundreds of people visited the scene of the Center street. fire yesterday and gazed at the charred upper works where the fire had ragged most fiercely. The Center street merchants all found on opening their doors yesterday morning that their goods had been damaged by water. The White building extends from Church street to near Orange street, and of the immense volume of water with which the fremen flooded the part which was on fire large quantity flowed along the long hallway which runs through the entire build- ing from one end to the other, and much of l it leaked through into the stores below, dam aging the goods besides impairing the cell l ings.
 Following are tho estimated insurances: L. S. Punderson-German American $1 ; I 500, Niagara $1 500, Commercial $1 800, Phoenix $1 ,000, North America $2, 800, North British and Mercantile $1 ,500; total $9,5o0. c. M. Loomis-Connecticut $1 ,0OO. Patrick F. Bohan, merchant tailor-Scot- tish Union and National $2, ,00O Kraft Brothers, merchant tailors-North America $1 ,50O, Security $500; total s3,- 900.
 John Conboy, merchant tailor-Etna $2,- 900.
 Paul Roessler-Commercia Union $500, Continental $2, 900; total $2, 500. Household Brass company-Jersey City $2, 800.
 Charles A. White & Company-Etna s7, 800, Glen Falls $5,000, Phoenix $5,OO0, North British $5,000, Hartford $5,OOO, and
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 Alphonso Thill, merchant tailor-North British and Mercantile $2, 7O0.50, and Ham, burg $2, TOO. 50; total $5, ,401.
 J. C. Miles, merchant tailor-The stock, North American of Philadelphia $2,OOO, Home Protection association $500 on furni- ture and fixtures; total $2,5O0
 Maltby & Son, merchant tailors-National $1 ,000, Germania $1 ,0O0; total $2, ,000
 Hurle & Co.,, merchant tailors-London $1,500, Liverpool $1 ,O00, Newark $1,O00; to- tai 3,5OO
 William Franklin & Co, merchant tailors Imperial, London, $1 ,O00; American, New ark, $1 200; total, $2, ,2e0.
 New Haven Window Shade company London and Lancashire, $1,O00; Merchants, New York, $1 ,000; Phoenix, Hartford, s., 900; Pacific, New York, $2,250; Conner cial, San Francisco, S3,000; London Assur- ance, New York, 5000; New York Bowery, S1 1,500; American and New York, S1 ,500; total, $14,000.
 Estimated losses as follows:
 P. F. Bohan, tailor, $1 800.
 John c. Miles, tailor, S1 300.
 Kraft Brothers, tailors, $2, 500.
 Alphonso Thill, tailor, $200.
 New Haven Window Shade company $5, ,000.
 c. M. Loomis & Co.,, $5,000.
 A. c. Raymond, stationer, $2, 300.
 Paul Roessler, $2, 900.
 Household Brass company, $500.
 Lemuel c. Punderson, $20, ,000.
 D. c. WinaAs, jeweler, $800-total loss, mo insurance.
 William F. Matthews, $500; uninsured.
 Maltby 6 Son, $500 to $400.
 Robert Morgan, $25.
 Hurle & Co.,, $200 to $500.
 William Franklin, $550.
 F. o. Futile, $50O
 The loss to the building, which belongs to the White estate, will not exceed $7,OOO. MT. J. w. Pond had s5, ,OOO on the building
 The pianos in the main store of O.. M. Loomis were mostly protected by rubber covers. The water dripped through into the store all day yesterday and the firm moved part of their stock into the Church street store recently vacated by Butler, the halter. MT. Loomis had several pianos upstairs in g room right under where the fire ragged, and these were drenched with water. MT. Loomis was in Danbury and was telegraphed to by his sons yesterday morning and expected home last evening The ceiling of Loomis' hall was badly drenched and water was running mi ha in fro stream tbs yeStefday aoy above, where Pundersen's large type setting room is. The ceiling will require good deal of repairing. In the hall also were several pianos covered with rubber cloths, but more or less damaged by water. Where the fire ragged most fercely in Pun derson's rooms scene of havoc was present a1 n half burned show bills and circulars and oth CT debris being piled up helter skelter, the roof half tumbled iD, holes in the floors and big beams lying where they fell, while the elevator well presented g most dismantled and ruined as- pect. The fire to all appearances did not start in this part, but back of it near water closet Whether the fire started in some oiled cotton waste or in the old papers or was started by an incendiary seems likely to remain a mystery. The kindlings with which the fire under the boiler at Punder- sons was to have been started yesterday morning lay about the fireplace not burned, so the fire evidently did not start there. One of the sufferers was D. c. Winans, whose clock, watch and jewelry repairing shop right under where the fire was was drenchsd with water, his tools and stock being much damaged. His loss is several hundred dol lars and he had no insurance. He had fire
 
 premises and despite his loss lit "Chang cigar and bore up with his customary good spirits. The lawyers offices, of which there is long line on the second floor on each side of the hallway, were but little dam aged, the water doing no particular harm in most cases. Paul Roessler had big fire blazing in his store. His stock of goods sui fered considerably from the water, much of the stock being delicate instruments and ar ticles of delicate mechanism. MT. Smith, the window shade man, was contemplating carloads of ruined wall paper when seen. His stores got generous supply of the waste water. The two workrooms of MT. Frank lin, the tailor, were close to the burned part and suffered much from water. The sewing machines looked as if they had been through an internecine war. The insurance men were quite busy yesterday preparing to settle.
 Mr. Cramer, the watch repairer in Roess- ler's window, also found on arriving that his goods and i'm plements had suffered damage.
 The Spring Bed company, in which MT. Breen the photographer is interested, escaped without loss. A. Thill's fine pictures in his store escaped with little, he being more for tunate than in the fire some years ago on his premises when valuable pictures of his were damaged about $10,000. Mir. Hurle, the toilor, by prompt work saved good portion of his goods from being saturated, else his damage would have been greater.
 CARD.
 I cannot help but acknowledge the kind ness of our postmaster, Benjamin R. English, who notified me through his son at about 5 o'clock this morning, 18th, that my store and shop were full of water occasioned by this fire. On arriving not only found him awaiting me, but on entering the prem ises he also assisted with his son helping to